Building Up My Portfolio Site - Design Planning 1

Creating my personal space in the web has been an ambition that I had for the longest time. Ever since I started my career in IT, I have always wanted to create that personal space. To me, it would be cool, awesome and useful because not only do I get to showcase what I can do, but more importantly, its a constant learning hub for myself, and hopefully to others who can pick up a thing or two with the content that I place in there. 

But whenever I think about the implementation-side of things - the content, the layout, the technology stack, the platform, the cost - I can't help but be overwhelmed until eventually, my mind shuns the idea off and flushes it on very long cycles of procastination... Honestly, because even as the years have passed, even if I had transitioned from the early days of being a trainee to a senior developer, the first step is still as hard and as daunting for as long as I remember - Where do I start?

Before today, I have tried to brush up and read up technical papers and watch videos that I feel would help me be more ready to embark on this ambitious goal again. I've learned about Bootstrap to ease my way through UIs because I am honestly not strong on that end. I've practiced and learned more about AngularJs because I do feel its a skill that I want in my bag of tricks for the next years to come. So, what's stopping me from taking that leap is to clearly define what is the purpose of my site

Just to get things going, here are the things I explicitly want to accomplish -

1. Publish Blog content with support for code markup, indexing, table of contents, images
2. Apply the near cutting edge technologies - AngularJS, MVC, C#, SQL
3. Easy Build and Deploy through a very good hosting framework
4. Complete this as a birthday gift to yourself and share and post it to friends, neighbors and the world - site launch!

Those 4 bullet points are seemingly easy to read and go through. But heck, in my mind, the neurons are firing fast to try and logically catchup to the how's and what's behind the site's ground work to finish. Its a lot of work, but it can be done so I better get started. 'Till the next stop!

Cheers,

Stephen